iStockphoto/Thinkstock(SINALOA, Mexico) -- A violent, hours-long car chase and gunfight between the Sinaloa drug cartel and Mexican soldiers over the weekend claimed the life of a young Mexican beauty queen who police said was riding with the drug runn...

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The last of the old-school Colombian drug lords has been captured in Venezuela, said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos during a televised speech on Tuesday. Daniel Barrera, also known as "Crazy Barrerra" or "T...

Freelance Texas photojournalist Zane Alejandro Plemmons Rosales is shown in this undated photo. (Facebook)(NEW YORK) -- A 30-year-old American photojournalist has become the latest reporter to go missing while covering Mexico's drug war, after he left ...

JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) -- Mexican authorities said Thursday that they have busted a factory on the U.S. border where drug cartels were allegedly manufacturing copies of Mexican military uniforms. The Mexican Navy said that an unnam...

HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP/GettyImages(MEXICO CITY) -- Police found 18 mutilated, headless bodies near a lake popular with tourists just outside Guadalajara, Mexico, a massacre that authorities blamed on the Zetas drug cartel. A phone call alerted police to t...

Hemera/Thinkstock (NUEVO LAREDO, Texas) -- The bodies of 23 people killed under horrific conditions have been found in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo on the U.S. border, the BBC reports. Nine bodies showing signs of torture were discovered hang...

USSS(WASHINGTON) -- Investigators have found that nine of the Colombian women who were drinking and partying with Secret Service personnel last month in Colombia were paid for their services, Congressional sources tell ABC News.
The Secret Servic...

USSS(WASHINGTON) -- Investigators have found that nine of the Colombian women who were drinking and partying with Secret Service personnel last month in Colombia were paid for their services, Congressional sources tell ABC News.
The Secret Servic...

Stockbyte/Thinkstock(MEXICO CITY) -- The Mexican government Wednesday released its latest tally of deaths from drug-related violence. The report says 47,515 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon began a crackdown on drug cartel ...